The Israel Lobby, so powerful in the US may have overstepped itself this time. By pressuring a Birmingham Alabama rights group to rescind a special award that was to go to Angela Davis, the Israel lobby has angered many in the American public.

A Chinese water-bottling company, Cloud Ocean Water Ltd, has permission to extract aquifer water at a plant in Belfast. This is not a new problem. The government needs to update and improve the RMA to protect water resources

Monsanto, maker of Roundup, is being sued in a California court for being responsible for a groundsman's terminal cancer , by deliberately withholding information about the carcinogenic dangers of Roundup.